`The book contains comprehensive coverage of issues relating to multicultural counselling, still current ten years after the first of the collected papers was published. The discussion points after each chapter give the whole book a text-book feel, which belies its more general significance as a professional
'Raising cultural awareness and challenging assumptions, this book will be essential reading' - Stress News
Race is a complex and sensitive subject which has a direct and significant bearing on counselling. Multicultural Counselling provides insights and provokes debate about the impact of race and ethnicity on counsellors, their clients and the therapeutic process.
Edited by Stephen Palmer, this collection of 20 articles represents the multiplicity of issues raised by counselling in a multicultural society. It examines topics which affect all counsellors, including the dynamics of mixed and same race counselling relationships and the dilemmas which confront counsellors in how to address issues related to racism which are raised in counselling.
The book covers both theory and practice, outlining different approaches to multicultural and transcultural counselling, highlighting the racism implicit in some counselling theory and providing examples of multicultural counselling practice. The Reader also presents fresh perspectives on counselling from beyond the predominantly white, Western culture in which it evolved and discussion issues at the end of each chapter further encourage the reader to take a critical and questioning approach to the subject.
Multicultural Counselling brings to the fore the key issues involved in multicultural counselling and captures the full complexity of the subject. Essential reading for trainee and practising counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists and others involved in therapeutic relationships with clients, the book aims to raise cultural awareness and challenge assumptions.
PART ONE: COUNSELLING AND RACE
Counselling and Race - Colin Lago and Joyce Thompson
Working with Issues of Race in Counselling - Aisha Dupont-Joshua
PART TWO: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MULTICULTURAL COUNSELLING
Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy - Zack Eleftheriadou
A Philosophical Framework
Multicultural Issues in Eclectic and Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy - Colin Lago and Roy Moodley
Counselling Idiographically - Stephen Palmer
The Multimodal Approach
Transcultural Family Therapy - Zoubida Guernina
Therapy with Intercultural Couples - Joan L Biever, Monte Bobele and Mary-Wales North
A Postmodern Approach
Counselling Black Employees Facing Racism and Discrimination - Nick Banks
Crisis Counselling - Romeria Tidwell
Counselling Foreign Students - P L S Khoo, M H Abu-Rasain and G Hornby
A Review of Strategies
Buddhism and Counselling - Padmil de Silva
Good Practice in Transcultural Counselling - Amanda Webb Johnson and Zenobia Nadirshaw
An Asian Perspective
Understanding Mental Illness Across Culture - Pittu Laungani
`I Say What I Like' - Roy Moodley
Frank Talk(ing) in Counselling and Psychotherapy
PART THREE: ETHNIC MATCHING IN COUNSELLING
Ethnic Matching in Counselling - Waseem J Alladin
How Important Is It to Ethnically Match Clients and Counsellors
An Analysis of the Facilitative Effects of Gender in Counselling Practice - Pat Ward and Nick Banks
Cross-Cultural/Racial Matching in Counselling and Therapy - Roy Moodley and Shukla Dhingra
White Clients and Black Counsellors
PART FOUR: RESEARCH
Investigating Biases in Trainee Counsellors' Attitudes to Clients from Different Cultures - Anita Pearce
The Experienced Influence of Effect of Cultural/Racism Issue on the Practice of Counselling Psychology - Petr[um]uska Clarkson and Yuko Nippoda
A Qualitative Study of One Multicultural Training Organization
Multicultural Counselling Research - Peter Jewel
An Evaluation with Proposals for Future Research
